First, LSU’s transition from the Capital Area Transit System (CATS) to Tiger Trails, a contracted private company, has been a vast improvement in enabling students, faculty, and staff to travel to...
Five years after the financial crisis of 2008, the economy struggles to move forward, yet corporations are hoarding more wealth than ever before. According to Audit Analytics, corporations currently have...
People get closer when they drink together.
We open up to people and share things we would otherwise find it hard to talk about when sober. This seems to help explain why college friendships sometimes...
April marks the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. SAAM 2014 focuses on healthy sexuality and youth, promoting healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.
I’ll be honest with...
A few weeks ago, our state legislature kicked off another round of lawmaking, with a few gun rights bills coming up for debate.
Probably the most interesting is House Bill 494, sponsored by state Rep....
Let’s talk guns. Or more specifically, let’s talk about the Southern misinterpretation of gun needs.
I know Louisiana and the general southern portion of the United States tend to believe guns...
It’s official: Baton Rouge sucks. At least when compared to almost every other urban area in the United States.
You may have already come to this conclusion by driving off campus and into the rest...
The New York Times published a well-crafted, grammatically impeccable article written by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in which he painted the country in a very optimistic and unrealistic light.
Spewing...
Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wisely wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling for peace. In the column, he sums up the short history of Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Republic...
A pig must have spread its wings and flew when I heard of a Louisiana Senate Bill with which I agreed.
Since Louisiana’s legislative session began in March, a multitude of disagreeable bills have...
A negative side effect of social media revealed itself on a large scale last week after a series of Instagram comments, direct messages and texts surfaced of actor James Franco in pursuit of a much younger...
